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Date of this Version
12-2010
Document Type
Article
Citation
The R Journal (June 2010) 2(1)
Abstract
The article introduces the cshapes R package, which includes our CShapes dataset of contemporary and historical country boundaries, as well as computational tools for computing geographical measures from these maps. We provide an overview of the need for considering spatial dependence in comparative re search, how this requires appropriate historical maps, and detail how the cshapes associated R package cshapes can contribute to these ends. We illustrate the use of the package for drawing maps, computing spatial variables for countries, and generating weights matrices for spatial statistics.
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Copyright 2010, The R Foundation. Open access material. License: CC BY 3.0 Unported